No he is not. This is selective editing to demean him . Mal intent.

NBC by their actions have guaranteed that this man connot obtain a fair trial.
NBC made it all about race.

Yes, yes, YES!

I think OP was being facetious!

And he SHOULD!

I hope he bankrupts them for this.
Obama´s immune too but he´ll get his later...

As Jim McDougal said:
Hell´s a burnin´...

Why didn´t he do this sooner?

Good!

I think OP may have left out the /s.

Excellent. If only the MSM could be sued for malpractice whenever it occurs...

He should also sue Obama, Jackson, Sharpton & Spike Lee. They all contributed to the racial hysteria. And don´t forget the Obama buddies = New black Panthers for the bounty ´dead or alive´.

Next up would be Crump & Parks, the DAs ofc.
and lots more.

This has been a travesty of justice.

He was not, at that time, a public figure. He needs to nail them to the wall.

Thanks guys. I only use "/s" when I think it might have been unclear. Obviously, YMMV.

Hope he cashes in BIG time...big enough to make it hurt for NBC otherwise it´s just the cost of doing business for them and nothing will change.

Many of us were appalled and sickened by the race-baiting coverage of this story by NBC and other mainstream media outlets. This was clear-cut malpractice by NBC. I would hope Zimmerman sues NBC for multi millions of dollars. NBC must be made an example of.

Simple he waited until he was able to secure a copy of the color photo taken by the first responder cop showing him bleeding from the nose and other places.
That photo proves NBC filtered data and more or less lied.

Get them for every foul, ill gotten penny they have..

#10 and OP: I agree. When I am sarcastic, I do not feel the need to identify it. I got your drift. Don´t worry.

"Zimmerman Broadcasting Company" sure has a nice ring to it ...

Here is the best reporting you will see on this case from Day One. Investigative work that would boggle your mind. An amazing effort.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/12/06/first-served-george-zimmerman-sues-nbc-defamation-intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress-demand-for-preservation-of-evidence-demand-for-jury-trial/

You can link to the complaint here as well. It names the defendants.

From NBC: There was no intent to portray Mr. Zimmerman unfairly," she said. "We intend to vigorously defend our position in court.

Translation: NBC is preparing to offer a settlement because they know their goose is cooked. At this point the argument is about whether NBC pays what? One Mil? 10 Mil? 100 Mil?

Never in my life have I seen such a disgusting display of self-righteousness, lies, propaganda, and judicial incompetence all for the sake of race-baiting. It´s only topped by Travon´s loathsome parents´ ostentatious displays of "grief" while holding hands and pretending to be together so they can milk every available dime from their son´s death.

I hope a major settlement from NBC is only the beginning of the comeuppance due the whole race-baiting industry. A plague on all their houses!

How is altering and then broadcasting a 911 call defended in court? On what legal leg would they stand?

There was certainly malice intended by NBC in this case. They wanted to portray Zimmerman as a racist and generally damage him in any way they could. No ´Absence of Malice´ here.

This is pure libel and a good jury will give him a huge settlement.

It is about time!

Marvelous!!! Maybe Mr. Zimmerman can get his reputation back and several million too!

NBC has a lot of money. They didn´t earn it, they lied and maligned Zimmerman, and should pay him everything they have. Costas is an old white guy and should go.

Sue them out of business.

They even admit to editing the tape, it´s just a matter of dollars for them now. Love the yellow journalism comment, we need to hear it more.

I wish I could be on anyone of those juries. Zimmerman is likely going to get acquitted that´s why they´ve been dragging this out. This poor guy will not be safe in this country when it´s over

I´m rooting for the white hispanic.

Don´t be so sure it will be over for Ziimmerman if he wins in local courts.
Obama will sic the Feds on him to find something to charge him on.
I know that´s double jeopardy , but Obama and his criminal justice department think they are above the constitution and common law.

The MSM also guaranteed that the American electorate could not make a fair appraisal of Obama and Romney. I have long argued that suing them is the only way to start bringing this corruption down. Complaining about "bias" has proven to be time and breath utterly wasted. They are manifestly corrupt. Take them to court for their crimes against the truth.

The one person in this entire thing who should go to jail is Angela Nifong. In the alternative, she should lose her license to practice law.

NBC didn´t just want to paint Zimmerman as a racist gun nut they wanted to paint US as racist gun nuts. They were successful. The cultural revolution has gone forward. They will probably get a Pulitzer Prize for the story.

fire everyone involved........sue nbc for a sinful amount of money...go george.....no one showed the pic of his bloody nose etc...just saw it for the first time..the press in this country is so low down...they are all guilty of incompetence and bias.....

Oh goodie -- obama´s son is being "scrutinized".....

Go for it!!

LZK

Ha! Love the OP comment.
NBC willfully set out to make this guy a racist, which in their book trumps murder every time...they deserve to be sued.

Anyone else see the huge ironies and discrepancies in the reporting of the football player who murdered his girlfriend and the George Zimmerman case? It´s insanity.

I don´t think Mr. Zimmerman will be in public danger so much as endangered by his public stand against Obama and company. I fear that he will have to leave the US to be safe from administrative retribution. Bullies (Obama) do not willingly accept defeat..

NBC (Nothing But Crap) sure needs to be brought down a notch or ten.....

They have gotten to be so disgusting (The Office).
Can´t watch it anymore.

The Today show is just a trashy rag.

Of course NBC will try to defend vigorously the civil suit. They may be on the hook for criminal charges too. Last thing they want is to have the civil record contain evidence that will burn them on the criminal side.

Personally, I hope Zimmerman and his lawyers are successful on both fronts. NBC is a despicable organization, IMHO, and it deserves to lose its broadcast license among other penalties.

It´s about time that they learn to get as good as they give. I hope he wins and wins BIG!

The race card is expensive. Hear that Al Sharpton? You are next.

Re: OP´s remark....

A carefully constructed bit of sarcasm shouldn´t need a "/S" any more than a good joke needs a rim-shot.

Gild not the lily.

And.....if I had a son he´d look like Mike Ditka and he woulda dispatched Mssr. Martin with his bare hands.

So there !

Freedom of speech: News papers, TV, Radio, etc have every right to write or say whatever they want, in any way they want be it truth or fiction.

Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.

Slander: defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.

Zimmerman has been defamed in both venues. First by NBC and the news print which he has every right to go after on the principle of Libel.

He has also been defamed by the likes of Sharpton and his ilk on the principle of Slander.

It´s in Zimmerman´s corner to prove there was no truth in the allegations of racism which probably will be possible and he should reap a good harvest. Right now he has an extremely biased constituency to confront in his upcoming trial.

God willing, he will win that also.

You go George. I bet they´re quaking in their high rise offices! Which alphabet network slandered that poor guy who lived w/ his mother and had found the bomb at the Olympics in Atlanta? Man, they tore that poor guy apart!! He sued and won BIG!

In Britain, news outlets are often sued for slander.

With our newly reelected Commissar-in-Chief at the helm, John Adams’ “nation of laws, not of men” description is being ever so persistently turned head-over-heels upon itself. Nothing good can come of this. I fear for our descendants.

Face it, with the election of Two Won, NBC (along with the others in the alphabet soup) have shown themselves to be RACIST. Go for it George. WTP would dearly love to see you win this and bring these klown kissing donkeys to their creaky knees.

I agree with #44.
The Obama admin. will pressure any judge or jury
(Chicago style) to Not find in favor of Zimmerman.
Obama and NBC campaigned on the race and division of this country and
will not let the truth prevail.

Ya gotta love the 1St Amendment. It allows fools, in this case NBC, to stand tall and and be identified.

Let´s hope that they get fleeced and flayed and start thinking twice before pursuing these kinds of behaviors in the future.

MSNBC is the news source for angry white teachers employed by the government. But - I feel sorry for the people that still watch NBC news... NBC News was relevant before they developed the TV remote control.

A press that lies and/or misrepresents will not remain free.

NBC will settle this thing as quickly and quietly as it can. Nice pay-out in exchange for a gag order.

What happened to George Zimmerman at the hands of NBC (and politically correct government officials) is a very big deal. Holding the network and its enablers accountable should be an even bigger deal.

This story made my day

Cash and court order will silence the truth

Excllent !!

Dittos, #4. And as my Mama said, ´´Hell´s only half full!´´

That said, suing the former network giant is one thing; going to trial is another; getting a judgment is another and having them PAY is quite another.

Any civil lawyers out there?? I have a law degree and license, but I mainly did criminal prosecution and administrative law. I can´t recall the standards for libel. IIRC, only "public figures" have to prove "actual malice". Ordinary folks like Zimm only have to prove that the defendant intentionally(?) published false information and the plaintiff suffered damage as a result. I also recall something about "false light", ie publishing stuff that may technically be truthful but that paints a false picture of the plaintiff. NBC could be cooked either way, I can think of no benign motive for editing out the dispatcher´s question to Zimm. And of course NBC will do their best to settle, hopefully it will cost them enough to hurt.

I was wondering about that as well, #57 (though I´m no lawyer).

I´d have to wonder also if NBC will attempt to hide behind the ´public figure´ defense, though I can only see that as an epic fail, since Zimmerman may be in that category now, he certainly wasn´t at the time of the incident, and it was NBC who made the man a pariah.

Burn, NBC, burn!

This case will end badly either way. if zimmerman loses, blacks will feel empowered to attack at will any white who happens to be walking more or less in their direction. if zimmerman wins, the blacks will riot and many innocent people will die.

in the end it will be a better, more just outcome if zimmerman wins. no one should feel they have the right to initiate an assault on someone because you think they are follwing you, let alone to pin them down and smash their head on the pavement.

Irrelevant if your´re a thug , a hood , a career criminal who just got out of prison , if you´re black , you´re to be protected by media . The media wing of the socialist party cannot take ANY chances rubbing that precious black vote the wrong way , and they know how volatile it can get . Just look at the riots . Who , if possible , should step up now is that sports team that was so blatantly smeared by the media wing .

Think of this as a precedent setting moment in the attack on government controlled, war controlled media. Racism, their robotic shouting of it, is just one of the Diane Sawyers robots cruel weapons against the people. Zimmerman goes to court and thereby gets lots of national attention from all the other robots. We can´t all go to court. We can attack each crappy news droid as often as possible and make their lives miserable. Nobody attacks the Diane Sawyers for their daily brainwashing, not a soul opposes the commie View, and so many other shows. It´s time each aware citizen focused criticism on the actual people, the shows, the companies, even the sponsors who don´t seem to care. We only look to the greedy Congress for help that is not ever coming. Boehner, imagine, is right there in the midst of Obama´s dictatorship, and he says nothing. Does not speak out for less government, no more taxes, less awful regulations, says nothing. And Boehner is the most important person on our side ???
We need more Bachmanns everywhere, more Palins, more Michelle Malkins, more Mark Steyns, we need constant criticizing from citizen and elected alike. They all have to attack each media lie. Last, we need our own unionized newspeople like Hannity, Rush
OReilly, Glenn, Huckabee to attacke their so called colleagues, the commie, statist brainwasher like Diane Sawyer and Brokaw. Attack them challege them on the air daily.

I wish the Tea Party movement could sue the mainstream media for the same thing -- portraying us as racists.

Some American Patriots must have stepped up & helped him file. The reason this is very important is that the MSM is using it as a baseline, to define every black on white attack.

Freedom of speech does not protect outright liars who intend to cause damage.

Another race riot inducing act by the MSM is to use photos of the attacker when he was 12 yrs old... not the gang banger pics from his own website.

Again... this has become the norm,... it is being repeated in other black on white crimes.

Horrific crimes aside, I object to ´designer´ legislation with names like Megan´s Law, Rachel´s Law, Leah´s Law, etc. etc.

In this case I make an exception - George Zimmerman should lay waste to NBC and there should be a ´Richard Jewell´ law enabling targets of media bias and character assassination to fast-track their counter-claims.

To the Koch bros, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn and hedge fund guys: BUY Comcast in its weakened state after NBC loses.

This will give conservatives an MSM network channel.

Reuters has the same story with the prejudicial headline "Trayvon Martin´s killer sues NBC over racist ´myth´"

Zimmerman should sue Reuters too!

I agree with #16. I wouldn´t mind hearing that NBC (nothing but communists) is gone and replaced by ZBC (Zimmerman Broadcasting Co.)

If the financial damages are enough to push NBC out of business, a good start. CNN still on the ropes, too. Newsweek hardcopies go away at the of this month. Too bad that Obie got re-elected on their backs, no? Zimmerman is about to become a very wealthy individual despite Obie´s attempts to screw us all on his tax hikes.

Hope George makes millions.

Obamas remark "if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" made it personal for all of his supporters. Zimmerman never stood a chance after that.

All Mr. Zimmerman has to do is demonstrate the threats on his life due to the edited actuality, then tell the court that he will need private comprehensive security and a secure place to live and lifetime income in order to protect himself and his family from the thugs...that will be worth about $200 million...

Funny how zippy can comment on this case when he knows nothing about it, but can´t comment on Bengaze after 10 weeks and all that intelligence at his command. Any drop of a hat is racist to him.